The first ever Hackathon organised by the Planning Commission and the National Innovation Council on 6th and 7th April 2013 on the 12th Five Year Plan!

If you are a creative designer, coder, film-maker or a policy and development enthusiast, come hack the 12th Plan over a 2-day period: create exciting visualizations of the future, tell the next big story in a myriad ways and build apps to fuel the change.

The event will be held simultaneously at 11 locations around India as well as through online participation, and prizes will be awarded to the best submissions in each category.

Registration has started already!

For more details, visit www.data.gov.in and connect on Facebook at facebook.com/PlanComIndia . Also, if you are a budding journalist or active on social media and want to blog, live-tweet or otherwise cover the Hackathon, check out the 'UnCover the event' competition on the website.

You can follow Twitter feeds @PlanComIndia and @pitrodasam

Date of interviews -

26^th March 2013 at 10:30 AM, CSIR-OSDD Research Unit, Entrepreneurship Building, 2nd Floor, Society for Innovation and Development, IISc Campus, Bengaluru - 12

28^th March 2013 at 10:30 AM, CSIR-OSDD Unit, CSIR HQ, 2 Rafi Marg,Delhi - 01

CSIR-Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Unit is looking to hire qualified incumbents on purely temporary basis as detailed below:

 

Project Code/Title	No. of Post(s)	Post Code/ Designation	Essential Qualification	Age Limit	Stipend (per month)	Tenure
(Project Code –HCP0001) Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite (MPDS): An OSDD Chemoinformatics Portal	1	Post Code-1 Project Fellow	First class B.Tech/M.Tech/M.Sc or equivalent in any branches of Bioinformatics/Computer Science.   Knowledge of cheminformatics is required	28 years	Rs. 16,000/- + 30 % HRA per month	12 months
	1	Post Code-2 Sr. Project Fellow	First class B.Tech/M.Tech/M.Sc or equivalent in any branches of Bioinformatics//Computer Science/ with Two years of relevant research experience.   Knowledge of cheminformatics/Diploma in Cheminformatics is required	32 years	Rs. 18,000/- + 30 % HRA per month	12 months
	1	Post Code-3 Sr. Project Fellow	M.Sc. Chemistry/Bioinformatics with Diploma in Cheminformatics/Diploma in drug discovery   Knowledge in computational chemistry software, data-mining applications is required	32 years	Rs. 18,000/- + 30 % HRA per month	12 months

Age relaxation for SC/ST/ OBC candidate as per Govt. of India instructions.

Engagement is for the project and the tenure shall be as mentioned above. The duration of the post is initially for One year or till the closing date of the project, whichever is earlier. Contract may be terminated at any time by giving one-month notice by either side. The applicants will have no claim implicit or explicit for consideration against any CSIR/OSDD Unit post.

How to Apply:

The eligible candidates should register here before they come for the interview. The last date for registration is 24^th March 2013.

 No TA/DA will be paid to the candidates to attend the interview.

 Note: The candidates have to report at 09:00 AM on the day of interview along with any Photo ID card and original certificates for entry purpose. Entry will be closed by 10:00 AM.

The Royal Society of Chemistry, CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, CSIR -Open Source Drug Discovery and AVRA Laboratories Pvt Ltd are jointly organizing the second UK-India MedChem Congress 2013 during 22-23 March 2013 at CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology , Hyderabad. The congress aims to bring together academia and industrialists to facilitate research collaborations in the area of medicinal chemistry.

For more details and to register click here

CSIR- OSDD has established a CSIR-OSDD Research Unit at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore; as an open lab for facilitating OSDD’s drug discovery efforts. The Unit will henceforth coordinate the informatics and wet-lab activities of OSDD. Members of OSDD community are welcome to come in and spent time on any research problem posted on the Sysborg portal. Dr. T.S. Balganesh, Head OSDD Unit and renowned scientist on TB drug discovery will be functioning from the Unit and will be available for guidance. Dr. U.C. Jaleel  will be the PI in charge of the Unit. The Unit also invites researchers on TB, Malaria, drug discovery and development to spent short sabbatical periods doing specific projects of interest to the OSDD community.PI’s interested in research visit and availing the facilities at the open lab are requested to inform Dr. Jaleel in advance to book the slot for the research visit.  Participants will always be served on a ‘first come first served’ basis.
The address of the CSIR-OSDD Research Unit at IISc is    Entrepreneurship Building, 2nd Floor, Society for Innovation and Development, IISc Campus, Bengaluru - 12

OSDD helpline No: 080 23603411.or Mail at : jaleel.uc@gmail.com

The OSDD-VP Short Video Competition on “The Need of New Drugs for TB” had 175 participants across the country submitting their entries. 23 films / videos have been shortlisted for final evaluation by a jury constituted by Vigyan Prasar (VP), based on the following criteria:

• Terms and Conditions for participation as stipulated and advertised by VP & CSIR-OSDD
• Relevance of the film to the topic "Need of new drugs for TB".
• Content and scripts, Quality and accuracy
• Aesthetic aspects including Direction, Cinematography, Animation/ Graphics/, Special Effects, Editing, Sound, etc.
• Clarity of communication and effective message

These entries will be evaluated by another jury at Kolkata on 6th January 2013 and prizes will be distributed on 7th January 2013. One representative (director or producer) of each team can participate in the science film festival. VP will provide reimbursement limited to AC II fare by shortest route and lodging boarding will also be provided to one participant per entry. The selected participants are requested to confirm their presence by Email to: snarwadiya@gmail.com as early as possible

Click Here to View the Final List: